Good Mornng

Wednesday Whittling

I constantly have to think hard establishing what day it is as they tend to blur into each other during this lockdown but I do know it is midweek, I do know that yesterday was a sunny unexpected spurt in the progress of the weather this week which according to current forecasts will not happen till the weekend. Alas, I will be heading townward later today as I forget some items I needed for ho,e such as shampoo, foodstuff, and more toilet rolls. I may also pick up a certain magazine from the newsagents there.

From Monday more shops will be reopening and I hope that includes bookshops as I do worry about independents such as Kate at Past Sentence, Fleur Bookshop, and the exquisitely titled Top Hat And Tales.

But really by now and due to all the science advice, we could decrease the social distancing to one metre. This would solve the problem of schools reopening and allow pubs to reopen. Anyway, next week I start a couple of visits for one of my companies in Sittingbourne, and then the shopping area just outside Queenborough on the island.


Well, I hope it does not rain whilst I am out. Clouds look dark now so wish me luck.

Dream Music

Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear

0:00:00 - Stratosfear [10.37]
0:10:37 - The Big Sleep In Search Of Hades [4.29]
0:15:06 - 3 a.m. At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee [8.49]
0:23:55 - Invisible Limits [11.25]

And the latest Wire mag cover -

Dream Music #2

Take a ride to the cosmic slide -

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure

00:00 Force Majeure 18:18
18:18 Cloudburst Flight 7:21
25:46 Thru Metamorphic Rocks 14:15





Enjoy.

Dream Music #3

More classic stuff from these pioneers.

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri

Tracks
Sunrise in the Third System
Fly and Collision of Comas Sola
Ultima Thule

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Enjoy
(Best with some slightly illegal substance)

Miles & Paris - Jazz For The Night People

When I listen to some of the jazz American jazz people have recorded in France and decided to become self-exiled there due to the racism of the USA in the fifties and sixties Paris was a benefactor in many ways. In fact, a recent BBC Radio 4 program explores the encounter between American modern jazz and the French New wave in Paris in the late 1950s and 60s.

Paris in the civil rights era was a hub of artistic collaboration as well as a kind of political refuge - a destination for American jazz musicians escaping racial prejudice and turbulence at home, finding new creative encounters abroad.

As segregation raged in the US, artists from Miles Davis and Bud Powell to Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk felt liberated in the city. Paris was the first foreign city Miles Davis ever visited and it was here he met Picasso. Sartre and Jean Cocteau. "It was the freedom of being in France and being treated like a human being...” he wrote, “It changed the way I looked at things forever. I loved being in Paris and Paris was where I understood that all white people were not the same; that some weren't prejudiced."

The admiration was mutual - French cinephiles loved American jazz. The film score became a key area of collaboration as jazz musicians worked closely with a younger generation of radical directors that made up the French new wave. These scores elevated French films to new levels of intensity, cool, and atmosphere.

Some of the musicians' great but little known work is recorded in these movies. But underlying the beautiful work, this story is one of political exile as well as cultural refuge. For a moment Paris became a jazz capital of the world as well as the free-thinking centre of Europe - a rebuke to prejudice in America, even as it had growing racial tensions of its own.
Paris has made me think about how many different stories are woven together in the city The love affair between French culture especially French film and African American jazz and at the heart of this romance the city itself with its residents from right around the world and its complex web of race relations in Paris the city of light there is one every kind of blues you can think of.

So for your nighttime jazz here is Miles -

Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

Tracklisting:
00:00 - Générique
2:53 - L'assassinat de Carala
5:04 - Sur l'autoroute
7:24 - Julien dans l'ascenseur
9:37 - Florence sur les Champs-Élysées
12:29 - Dîner au motel
16:27 - Évasion de Julien
17:21 - Visite du vigile
19:26 - Au bar du Petit Bac
22:20 - Chez le photographe du motel


Au revoir, jazz cat signs out.

Enjoy.

Good Night

New London Jazz

There is a new generation of British musicians shaking up the jazz establishment.

This community of musicians grew up in London. They practiced together and learned the blues. Now they’re collaborators, playing alongside each other in dozens of different bands. Their collective story takes us to venues across town, from the back of a Jamaican restaurant in Deptford to the Royal Albert Hall.

UK Jazz is having a moment. Spotify has reported a 108% growth in people under 30 listening to UK Jazz. Shabaka Hutchings, saxophonist and clarinettist, has recently signed to Impulse Records, the home of Coltrane. Global audiences are tuning into London’s jazz musicians.

Moses Boyd - Rye Lane Shuffle

Seed Ensemble - Afronaut

Sons Of Kemet - Play Mass

Enjoy.